Opm clara picanyol

OPM (Clara Picanyol)

Tracking of Resources

Planning, Costing and FinancingCommunity of Practice

CIFF

CSN

Donor Network

REACH

Questions

Tracking of Governments Resources

Preliminary finding on analysis of national budgets; and,

Proposed methodology and categorization framework

Clara Picanyol, 16th of July 2014

Background

• Having reliable data is essential to policy makers to prioritise, to plan, and to make decisions on resource allocation, as well as to monitor and evaluate policy implementation.

• Data availability and capacity to track public financial resources vary from country to country, and largely depend on underlying PFM system

• What is the most comprehensive document on government’s spending plans? The National Budget

• We reviewed on-line published national budgets to understand the level of detail available online

• Note: 3-weeks desk-based reviews; no specific request was sent to Governments

Findings (1 of 2)

• We found 28 out of 51 SUN member countries national budgets published online (55%)

• There are numerous ministries that could potentially contain nutrition expenditures:– Most obvious ones found in all budgets: health, agriculture, education

– Other functional areas appearing in the name of other ministries: water resources, family, gender, children, women affairs, social welfare, community development, youth, environment, labour, local government, rural development, culture, sports, and fisheries

• A nutrition department or equivalent (e.g. cost centre) was found in six countries

Findings (2 of 2)

• For 21 national budgets it was possible to have the budget broken down to the programme level

• Out of them, only 10 countries were identified as having a clear programme targeted towards fighting malnutrition

• The public information available on domestic resources for nutrition is limited to: 1. a programme name,

2. a brief generic programme description,

3. an ‘oversight’ agency (or the agency with the authority to incur expenditures for the programme) and;

4. a total amount allocated to the programme.

Proposed framework

• Step One - Identification: Identify the relevant programmes through a key word search

• Step Two - Categorisation: Assess whether the programmes found fall under the category of “nutrition-specific” or “nutrition-sensitive” investments (in close consultation with relevant stakeholders)

• Step Three - Attribution: Attribute a percentage of the allocated budget to nutrition. 100% of the amount would be allocated in the case of programmes that have been categorized as “nutrition-specific” while 25% of the amount would be allocated in the case of programmes that have been categorized as “nutrition-sensitive”

Limitations: transparency vs accuracy, no comparison across countries